Debasis Chakroborty

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Debasis Chakroborty
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Background information
Born (1961-06-09) 9 June 1961 (age 64)
Calcutta, India
Genres
Occupations
  • Musician
  • composer
  • associate professor
Instrument Indian Slide Guitar
Years active1991–present
Website debslide.com

Debasis Chakroborty (born 9 June 1961) is an Indian Slide Guitar player from Senia-Maihar Gharana of Hindustani Classical Music.

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Chakroborty was born in Calcutta, India, and began learning guitar from his father Sh. Madhusudan Chakroborty. He then came under the tutelage of guitarist Pandit Barun Kumar Pal from Kolkata, and Pandit Jotin Bhattacharya, a sarod player and senior disciple of Ustad Baba Allauddin Khan Sahib of Maihar Gharana. Later on, Debasis became a disciple of the guitarist Pundit Brij Bhushan Kabra.

Debasis's style of playing combines both Gayaki and Tantrakari Angs. He follows the oldest tradition of playing sarode, sitar and veena with his modified Hawaiian guitar, which has a three-octave range.

He is an "A" grade artiste of Prasar Bharati in both Hindustani Classical and light music, [1] and performed in the National programme. He is an ICCR empanelled artiste under the Indian Ministry of External Affairs. He has performed at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia as visiting faculty and artist in residence. [2] At present, he lectures in the Department of Music, Institute of Visual Performing Arts & Research, Mangalayatan University in Aligarh.

Career

Chakroborty continues to perform actively in India and abroad. In recent years, he has been featured as one of the leading artists at the Kala Festival, a UK-based celebration of South Asian music presented by KalaSudha.

He performed in the following editions of the festival:

Through his Kala Festival appearances, Chakroborty has collaborated with noted artists such as Pandit Sanju Sahai (Tabla), Ustad Akram Khan (Tabla), Deepak Shah (Piano), and Hanif Khan (Tabla), showcasing cross-cultural dialogues between Indian and Western classical instruments.

Discography

Solo with Sam Evans (Tabla)
Associated works

References

  1. ↑ "ANNUAL ARTISTE LIST OF AIR KOLKATA AS ON 01.01.2020" (PDF). Prasar Bharati .
  2. ↑ McPherson, Gary E.; last Welch, Graham F., eds. (1 August 2012). The Oxford Handbook of Music Education. Vol. 1. Oxford University Press. p. 898. ISBN   978-0199730810.
  3. ↑ "KalaSudha launches the Kala Festival to celebrate a mesmerising month of exquisite Indian instrumental music". Pressat. 5 September 2023. Retrieved 22 October 2025.
  4. ↑ "KalaFestival 2025". KalaFestival.com. Retrieved 22 October 2025.
  5. ↑ "Sam Evans - Biography". 2drums.net. Archived from the original on 17 July 2018.
  6. ↑ Tumbling into The Dawn at Discogs


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